Throughout its history the United States has
shown two faces: one that’s peaceful, promoting justice and
self-determination, and one that’s selfish, defining its
national interests in ways that promote suffering and brutality
abroad.

How did the radical suffragists come to their vision, a vision not of Band-Aid reform but of a reconstituted world completely transformed? They saw the possibility of freedom because they knew women with liberated lives, women who possessed rights beyond the suffragists' wildest imagination—Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women.